John Reese 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 30 Sep 1731 - Prince George Co., Virginia
    Christening: 20 May 1733 - Prince George Co., Virginia
          Death: Bef 1790 - (Sumter Co., South Carolina)
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:
Parents 
         Father: Thomas Reese (Bef 1707-Abt 1775)
         Mother: Mary (      -      )
Spouses and Children 
1. *Mary Pentecost (       - 1807)
       Marriage: 
       Children:
                1. Huberd Reese (      -1803)
                2. Scarborough Reese (      -      )
                3. Jane Reese (      -Bef 1802)
                4. Mary Reese (      -      )
Notes
General:
John Reese is identified as a son of Thomas Reese in Thomas's will and in the Bristol Parish Birth Register. The letter in the notes under Henry Reese (1777-1856) says that he went to South Carolina.

There is clear documentary evidence from Sumter Co., South Carolina that Huberd and Scarborough Rees are brothers and that Mary Rees is their mother. That John is Mary's husband and the father of Huberd and Scarborough is conjectural. Unlike Huberd and Scarborough, John is not in the 1790 census. He presumably died before 1790.

LAND in CRAVEN CO., SOUTH CAROLINA:

Summaries of documents relating to land grants and early land transactions in South Carolina can be seen at http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/.

Two men named John Rees were in South Carolina. Land on the waters of Black River is being assigned to this John Rees since he is conjectured to be the father of Huberd Rees and Huberd received land on the waters of Black River. Land on the High Hills is being assigned to the other John Rees, an uncle of this John Rees. Which John got which land is conjectural.

On June 17, 1772 John Rees receives 350 acres in Craven Co. in St. Mark's Parish. The document mentions Black River. There is no plat.

On June 13, 1772 Jane Mathews receives 200 acres in Craven Co. in St. Mark's Parish on the waters of Black River. The plat indicates that it is bounded on the SW by land laid out to John Rees. James Rembert is the surveyor.

According to Wikipedia, Craven Co., South Carolina was one of the 3 original counties established by the Lords Proprietor of the English colony of Carolana in 1682. The original Craven County's lands now lie in parts of Berkeley, Charleston, Georgetown, and Williamsburg counties. The watershed of the Santee River drains a large portion of the piedmont regions of South and North Carolina and enters the Atlantic Ocean about 40 miles north of Charleston. It is formed by the confluence of the Wateree River and the Congaree River about 140 miles NW of Charleston. According to Wikipedia, the High Hills of Santee is a long, narrow, hilly region in the western part of Sumter Co. which extends north almost to the Kershaw County line. The Wateree River is the western boundary of Sumter Co.

The Black River is not a tributary of the Santee River. Presumably the Black River drains the east side of the High Hills and the Santee River drains the west side.
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